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Excerpt from Within the Capes of Virginia: Showing the Advantages and Attractions of Norfolk, Portsmouth, Newport News, Hampton This work is designed to acquaint the Capitalist and Home-seeker with the benefits and advantages that accrue to all who desire to find congenial climate, health, pleasure, and profitable investment within the confines of the section under consideration. The main object is to promote the interest of the community, attract the Capitalist and Investor to the Point of Investigation, and secure the settler. It is endeavored to give as succintly as possible without undue brevity, the facts, as may he borne out by statistics in regard to the Manufacturing, Industrial, Commercial, and Transportation facilities, that these cities afford with the hope that they may meet with a careful perusal by each and every one seeking to change his location or embark in new enterprises, and to such we say, come and investigate; you will find everything we claim, and more, too, in abundance. Those who wish further information will be cheerfully accommodated by applying to any of the Railroad and Steamship Lines or the Boards of Trade, Business Men's Associations, or Chambers of Commerce of any of the cities enumerated. In the following pages no attempt has been made to give an exhaustive historical renew, and on these lines we will, without going into extensive details, proceed to the Capes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
On April 26, 1607, the English colonists anchored at the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay and came ashore to the historic piece of land they named Cape Henry. Then, in 1917, a military post was established and fortified to protect the southern portion of the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay during World War I; it was named Fort Story. Expanded and heavily fortified to meet the demands of the Second World War, the post served as a principal installation for the Harbor Defenses of Chesapeake Bay. The big guns fell silent after that conflict, and the post became the Home of Army Amphibians with over-the-beach operations. Today Fort Story continues to provide a superb training installation for the Army Transportation Corps and Special Operations.
The thermal structure of a rectangular area approximately 130 kilometers on a slide over the Continental Shelf seaward of the Virginia Capes was investigated between 24 February and 11 March 1967. Sea surface temperature patterns agree with previous surveys in that isotherm orientation generally paralleled the coast with highest temperatures observed offshore. Zero or positive vertical temperature gradients predominated, but some transient negative gradients occurred. Warm water in the southeastern quadrant of the survey area is probably Gulf Stream water advected northwestward into the survey area. The warm water moved northward during the survey. Chesapeake Bay discharge flowed seaward south of Cape Henry. On the basis of this survey, the development of thermal structure prediction techniques appears feasible providing a knowledge of local conditions and sufficient synoptic data are available. (Author).
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The book is a memoir about growing up Black in Cape Charles, Virginia on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake. It details the origin of the town as a railroad terminus and connecting to ferry barges across the Chesapeake Bay to Norfolk, through its golden age in the Jim Crow South and its decline with the ascendancy of automobiles and the building of the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel. Its rise again as a tourist destination in the past decade and how the fortunes of the town is chronicled, without acknowledgment of the role of the Black community, which was a robust and thriving parallel community, that evolved in response to the segregation of the Jim Crow South. Now the town is rising again as a tourist destination and replacing the Black section with White weekend second home owners, and the Black presence has considerably diminished. Without a recording of its history, its entire memory will be gone, as if it was never there at all. The memoir details the life of one Black man who is the grandson of a slave but became the first elected Black member of the Town Council and the first Black member elected to the Northampton County Board of Supervisors. It addresses Black and White relations and the experience of being Black and how one navigates the Jim Crow racist era. By reading this account of a Black man's life one may develop a better understanding of why we are experiencing still racial injustice and inequality, after legal barriers had been abolished by the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964. Its target audience would be all who are interested, both Blacks and Whites, in learning how they still carry the legacy of slavery in their hearts and how it informs their behavior at present and how by acknowledging their racist beliefs, they can choose to correct them, with actions that help realize the dream of true equality of the races and fulfill the lofty promise of the Revolution: its declaration of the self- evident truth, that all men are created equal, with unalienable rights to Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.